| BUS 1600: Introduction to Business Practice (5) Offerings |
| Students will be introduced to the purpose and practice of business, with an emphasis on evaluating the goods and services provided by business as well as the employment practices of business. Student will develop their understanding of the interrelationships between financial information systems, product development, marketing and management. This course is intended for business minors and others interested in exploring the role of business in society. |
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| BUS 1700: Spreadsheets (1) Offerings |
| What is a "spreadsheet"? Creating, modifying, saving, and printing spreadsheet documents. Entering and using formulas and calculations. Editing and importing data, incorporating graphs. Formatting and enhancing the appearance of a spreadsheet document. |
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| BUS 2414: Legal Environment of Business (5) Offerings |
| Studies the relationship between law and business. Includes coverage of laws that impact the employer-employee relationship, product safety, advertising, contracts, business organizations, and business crimes and torts. |
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| BUS 2600: Managerial Communication (2) Offerings |
| Prepares students for communicating effectively in organizations. Topics include writing concisely and clearly; writing effective reports and business correspondence, including email and memos; delivering oral presentations; and mastering presentation software. |
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| BUS 2601: Business Writing Tutorial (1) Offerings |
| Students will work with a writing consultant to improve their writing skills. This course is required for accounting, business administration, and economics majors if they have not otherwise passed the School of Business and Economics Writing Competency Requirement, which can be met with a score of 5 or 6 on the English Placement Test, or a grade of B or better in ENG 2201 Intermediate College Writing. Extra fee. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
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| BUS 2700: Statistics for Business and Economics (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: Bus 1123 or passing score on Mathematics Proficiency exam or completion of Arithmetic Review. Explores descriptive statistics, probability, random variable distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, and nonparametric statistics. |
| Equivalent Courses:MAT 2700
Attributes:Mathematics (MAT)
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| BUS 2910: Internship and Career Strategies (1) Offerings |
| Assists students in finding an internship. Students will develop skills in resume and cover-letter writing; identifying and articulating strengths and skills; using resources for finding internships; interviewing and networking; and understanding the requirements for an approved business internship. It is recommended that students take this class during their freshman or sophomore year, and prior to applying for the major. |
| Equivalent Courses:GS 3001
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| BUS 3000: CCCU: Business in India (3-6) Offerings |
| See BestSemester.com for current course description. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| BUS 3250: Business Finance (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: ACCT 2361 and 2362, and CSC 1123 or a passing score on the spreadsheets competency exam. Studies the principles of financial markets, internal and external sources of funds and their costs to the firm. Includes management of working capital, capital budgeting, valuation issues, and financial planning. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3251: Investments (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3250. Studies the basic problems and issues concerning development and implementation of a personal investment program. Includes analysis of investment risks, types of investments, securities markets and portfolio theory. Also considers securities analysis and valuation techniques. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3541: Marketing and Society (1-5) Offerings |
| Studies the principles of marketing. Employs a systems approach to examine the impact of marketing on the quality of life. Considers both macro and micro dimensions of marketing. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Clothing and Textiles, Interior Design Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3542: Marketing Research (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisites: MAT 2700 or MAT 1360, and BUS 3541. Studies the marketing research process: preliminary steps and research design; questionnaires; secondary and primary data; sampling; processing and interpreting data; evaluation; and effective presentation of findings. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3544: Advertising (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3541. Describes the theory and practice of advertising and its role in the firm and in the socio-economic system. Discusses techniques and the management of advertising and applies them to the practice of marketing. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Clothing and Textiles, Interior Design Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3548: International Marketing (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3541. This course examines the theory and application of international marketing from a global, rather than a U.S.-centered viewpoint. International management issues are examined both from the perspective of small and midsized businesses, as well as multinational firms. The course also focuses on ethical issues concerning the global diversity of customs and morals, environmental issues, and the impact of trade. This course is offered online. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3600: Gender and Leadership (5) Offerings |
| This course explores why women and men continue to have differing rates of representation in leadership roles in the workplace. Leadership styles, organizational practices, perceptual biases and other factors that influence leadership outcomes for men and women will be examined. The course reviews recent research from a variety of social science disciplines including social psychology, sociology, economics, political science, management and organization science. May not be offered every year. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3614: Organizational Behavior for Managers (5) Offerings |
| An introduction to theory, research, and practice related to the management of human behavior in an organizational context. Course topics include individual characteristics, motivation, learning, communication, leadership, decision making, group dynamics, conflict, power, and politics. The course involves significant group activities and requires multiple oral presentations. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Information Systems, Interior Design Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3615: International Organizational Behavior (5) Offerings |
| An introduction to theory, research, and practice related to the management of human behavior in a global context. Course topics include individual characteristics, culture, motivation, communication, leadership, decision making, group dynamics, cultural diversity, conflict, and power, all examined in a cross-cultural setting. Only available on study abroad programs. |
| Equivalent Courses:BUS 3614
Attributes:Upper-Division
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| BUS 3620: Management Information Systems (5) Offerings |
| Studies the processes for collecting, verifying, and processing information to assist management in making decisions to achieve the organization's goals. Software, hardware, networks, and electronic data interchange will be examined, with computer systems viewed as one part of the complete information system. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3657: Human Resource Management (5) Offerings |
| An introduction to the management of human resources in organizations. Theory, research, and practice in the areas of human resources planning, job analysis and design, recruiting and staffing, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, organization development, government regulation of HRM, and quality of work life will be studied. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Interior Design Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3670: Management in the Nonprofit Sector (3) Offerings |
| Focuses on the management of not-for-profit organizations. Includes analysis of board of directors, management responsibilities, funding requirements, coordination and direction of volunteers, legal issues, and public relations. Appropriate for those interested in the management of churches, hospitals, performing groups, and social-service organizations. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Global Development Studies Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3680: Social Enterprise (3) Offerings |
| Examines "blended value" businesses designed to achieve both financial return and social benefit. Incorporates lectures, case studies, guest speakers, and preparation of a social enterprise business plan to study commercial ventures operated by nonprofit or for-profit organizations. Emphasizes the unique rewards and cultural, human resource, legal, and financial challenges of earned-income ventures within mission-based organizations. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Global Development Studies Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3682: Social Venture Planning (2) Offerings |
| A social venture provides a social service that is funded by a revenue-generating "engine". In this course, students will develop a business plan for a social venture that either enhances the revenue-generating capabilities of a social service agency, connects a social venture with a for-profit company's revenue stream, or creates a social venture start-up. Students will learn the components of a successful venture plan including market research, developing an operations strategy, creating financials and pitching their idea to potential donors and investors. Students completing this course will submit their plan to the Annual Social Venture Plan Competition during Spring Quarter. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| BUS 3690: Microfinance (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: ECN 2101. Examines microfinance as a business oriented tool to alleviate global poverty. Topics include lending methodologies, products, cultural and regulatory environments, financial analysis, and performance improvement of microfinance institutions, along with limitations and controversies surrounding the practice. Grounded in Christian theological understandings of development and human well-being. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Global Development Studies Majors only. |
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| BUS 3700: Quantitative Methods for Decision Making (3) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: MAT 2700 or MAT 1360. Uses computers for solving quantitative management decision problems. Includes optimization with derivatives; marginal analysis; linear programming; and forecasting methods. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Economics Majors only. |
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| BUS 3828: International Business (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: ECN 2101 or 2102. Covers the major forms of international business including problems of licensing, production, marketing, import, and export; emphasizes relationships between theory and practice regarding management, government policy, and international problems. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Clothing and Textiles, Economics, Fashion Merchandising, Global Development Studies Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3830: International Business Seminar (3) Offerings |
| This course will be taught by an SPU faculty member at a location outside the United States for students who are part of the School of Business and Economics Study Abroad program. The course will cover current topics in international business; the specific topics will vary from year to year. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 3950: Special Topics in Spirituality and Business (1-5) Offerings |
| This seminar-style course provides in-depth study of an issue related to Christian faith and business. The same topic cannot be taken for credit more than once. May take more than one offering per quarter with SAS registration. May be repeated for credit up to 9 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| BUS 4274: Problems in Corporate Finance (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3250. Gives an in-depth treatment of the more critical aspects of financial decision making introduced in BUS 3250, utilizing lectures and case studies. Topics typically include mergers and acquisitions, forecasting and cash budgeting, valuation techniques, and capital structure issues. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4275: The Practice of Finance (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 4274. Applies tools and concepts in all phases of finance to real situations through projects and case studies. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4543: Marketing Management (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3542. Deals in depth with the planning, executing, and controlling of marketing strategies and tactics. Uses a computer simulation and a case format. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4622: Information and Database Systems (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3620. Database concepts and management issues are explored from information modeling to the implementation and application of a database. Topics include information modeling, database design and manipulation, query languages, integrity, reliability, distributed database, database management, design, and implementation of a database application. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4625: The Organization's Presence on the Net (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3620. This course provides a framework for an organization to evaluate, create, and implement a successful net presence through the use of e-commerce tools. Information technology advances drive dramatic changes in every area of economic and personal life. Opportunities and challenges abound: fluid organizational structures; globalization; service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; networked communities; and supplier-producer-customer partnerships. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Undergraduate only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4631: Business Planning I (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisites: BUS 3250, 3541, and 4644. The Business Planning courses show students how to prepare detailed plans for social ventures or for-profit businesses of their own choosing. There is significant one-on-one interaction with the professor in addition to lectures and case studies. Covers marketing planning, production, management, financial analysis and risk analysis. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4632: Business Planning II (2) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 4631. This class is intended for students who will enter one or more of the many business plan competitions around the United States. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4644: Operations Management (5) Offerings |
| Analyzes theory and application of the systems approach to production management. Provides a focus on the decision-making process, the design and control of manpower, materials and machines in several production/service environments. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4660: Managing Systems (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3614. This management course is a problem-focused look at organizational systems. Building upon a systems-theory model we will explore the macro-level issues and dynamics of whole organizations. Topics will include organization structure, technology, culture, context, power and politics, effectiveness, innovation, learning, and change. This is an applications-oriented course, in which our analysis of companies will be informed by theory and grounded in practice. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4661: Special Topics in Management (1-5) Offerings |
| Students analyze current issues in improving the effectiveness of organizations. May be repeated for credit 2 times. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Global Development Studies Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4690: Strategic Management (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisites: BUS 3250, 3541, 3614, 3700, and 4644. Explores strategy formulation and implementation processes and the measurement of performance designed to aid organizations to achieve the purpose and objectives of both small and large businesses. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration Majors only. Post-Baccalaureate, Senior students only. |
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| BUS 4899: Business Ethics (5) Offerings |
| Prerequisites: UFDN 3100, and ECN 2101 or 2102. UFDN 3100 may be taken concurrently. This senior-level capstone course explores various ethical theories and their application to the practice of business. Gives particular emphasis to Christian ethics and focuses on individual ethical decision making. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics Majors only. Post-Baccalaureate, Senior students only. |
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| BUS 4900: Independent Study in Business (1-5) Offerings |
| The student proposes a topic of current interest in business to a professor in the School of Business and Economics. The student meets with the professor to discuss a bibliography and rough drafts before turning in the final draft of a paper. A 5-credit independent study requires a total of 30 pages of written work. In general, the number of pages of written work must be six times the number of credits, or there must be equivalent work in exams or other requirements. May be repeated for credit up to 15 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| BUS 4930: Business and Economics Practicum (1-3) Offerings |
| Selected students are assigned instructional support responsibilities. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Economics Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4940: Internship (1-5) Offerings |
| Only available on study abroad programs. Provides opportunities for students to apply principles of business, faith, service and leadership in an organizational context. The internship must have a minimum time commitment of 100 hours during the quarter and be related to students' Business Administration major. A learning contract must be completed and approved by an SBE faculty member prior to the internship experience. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| BUS 4942: Internship Reflection and Professional Development (1-5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 2910 or GS 3001. Provides an opportunity for reflection on a student's internship experience. Internship experience must be related to student's Business Administration major and have provided opportunities for student to relate and apply principles of business, faith, service, and leadership to a professional business setting. Requires permission of Instructor. Requires SBE Internship approval form signed by intern and supervisor or letter of recommendation from internship supervisor which includes dates of employment and responsibilities. Must be taken within one calendar year of beginning of Internship experience. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| BUS 4945: Advanced Internship (1-5) Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 4942. Provides students with the opportunity to specialize their applied learning to discipline specific issues and questions through individualized guidance with a faculty sponsor in their concentration, first hand experience in their internship sites, academic research, and face-to-face interviews with professionals. May be applied to a business administrative elective. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Business Administration Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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